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The moods used in direct questions are the same as those used in statements.

a. Indicative (examples in ^cross2642): sometimes in a past tense with ἄν, as πῶς δὲ πάντες ἐζήλουν ἂν τοὺς τυράννους; but why should all men envy despotic rulers? X. Hi. 1.9, εἴ τις ἕνα νόμον . . . ἐξαλείψειεν . . . , ἆρ' οὐκ ἂν ἀπεκτείνατ' αὐτόν; if any one should cancel a single law . . ., would you not have put him to death? Lyc. 66. On τί οὐ or τί οὖν οὐ with the aorist, see ^cross1936.

b. Subjunctive: in deliberative questions ( ^cross2639). On the anticipatory subjunctive in τί πάθω, see ^cross1811.

c. Optative (potential), as τίς φράσειεν ἄν; who can tell? E. I. T. 577. Without ἄν this optative is rare, as τίς λέγοι; who can tell? A. Ch. 595. Cp. ^cross1821 a.